The Illustrated Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson
Bobby Campbell
Come take a quick trip through the lives & ideas of Robert Anton Wilson in this illustrated elucidation of some but not all his most illuminating memes and profundities. Visionary cartoonist Bobby Campbell gleefully adapts Wilson’s neurosemantic brilliance into the visual language of the comic book medium in an explosion of non-linear, cosmic psychedelia. Whether you are a fully initiated Discordian Pope, or a starry eyed seeker of the 23 enigma, this RAW funny book will bring the synchronistic magick of Illuminatus! right where you are sitting now.
Hilaritas Press, December 2017
Transcendental Journeys – A Visionary Quest for Freedom
Torsten E. Klimmer (Omananda)
Transcendental Journeys is a world traveler’s testimony of three decades. A mystical near death experience in Sumatra starts the spiritual journeys of the author who describes the process of conscious awakening in the collective evolution of man through his visionary writings. This artful multimedia book with photography and embedded video links urges people to free themselves. It inspires direct action towards the profound shift in perspective that is required today. Discoveries in exotic places and shamanic dimensions are slowly revealed during this nonfictional cosmic adventure that offers an exciting view into the visual, spiritual, and practical possibilities available to anyone with an open mind.
© Omananda, December 2017
A Long Way from Home
Peter Carey
This thrilling, high-speed story starts in one way and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny, the more so as the world gets stranger, and always a page-turner, even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves. Set in the 1950s amid the consequences of the age of empires, this brilliantly vivid and lively novel reminds us how Europeans took possession of a timeless culture – the high purpose they invented and the crimes they committed along the way. Peter Carey has twice won the Booker Prize for his explorations of Australian history. A Long Way from Home is his late-style masterpiece.
Kindle, February 2018
Legends of the Condor Heroes – A Hero Born
Jin Yong
The world imagined by Chinese writer Jin Yong is one which celebrates loyalty, courage and the triumph of the individual over a corrupt and authoritarian state. The world’s biggest kung fu fantasy writer, Jin Yong, the “Lord of the Rings of Chinese literature” enjoys huge popularity in the Chinese-speaking world. In the west, however, his name is barely known, largely due to the complexity of the world he has created and the puzzle that has posed for translators. Set in China in 1200 and written in the wuxia or fighting hero tradition, A Hero Born tells of an empire close to collapse. Under attack from the Jurchen Jin dynasty, the future of the entire Chinese population rests in the hands of a few lone martial arts exponents.
Kindle, February 2018
The Silk Roads – A New History of the World
Peter Frankopan
Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts.
Penguin, March 2017